See John Heartfield's riveting photomontages and book covers in this new exhibition drawn from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.

Heartfield fought fascism with art, combining photographs and text into cannily subversive political images. His innovative compositions and his protests against war, the far right, and the exploitation of workers are still powerful today.

Edgar Degas captured the human form with sensitivity and acute psychological insight. This exhibition brings together the Getty Museum's 14 drawings, paintings, and photographs by Degas to present a portrait of the artist as a master of media and an innovator anchored in the traditions of his craft.

Jean-Claude Pennetier has been a virtuoso of classical piano, as well as musical theater, children's opera, and contemporary music, for over 30 years. Now, in a performance complementing the exhibition Degas at the Getty, Pennetier unites with three equally accomplished musicians for an afternoon of piano and percussion works celebrating 19th-century France.

Artists have been bad—and they've captured it on film. Experience the full range of recklessness-as-art in this program of videos featuring staged irresponsibility, risky public interventions, and dangerous stunts in the tradition of Chris Burden and Marina Abramovic.

The program features work by 14 artists, including newly commissioned works by Ryan Trecartin and Juneau/Projects and Joanne Jones.

Recovering the Crescent City: The Future of New Orleans's Past (Conservation Matters lecture)

April 20, 7:00 p.m.The Getty Center

A New Orleans church stands in ruins

Which way New Orleans? Join a panel of three experts for a discussion about Hurricane Katrina's effect on the city's architecture, museums, and cultural heritage and what the future holds for this unique American city.

"Ours is an architecture of gardens" says Jorge Silvetti, one of the key creative forces behind the Getty Villa's redesign.

Join Wim de Wit, curator of the exhibition The Getty Villa Reimagined, to explore how Silvetti and his firm linked the Villa's inside and outside spaces and created a feeling of immersion in the landscape.

Sister Wendy Beckett shares her insightful and deeply personal reactions to masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Joy Lasts, an essay on spiritual art, religious art, and the difference between the two.

Learn why she finds El Greco's Christ on the Cross so compelling and why we must all be true to ourselves in our encounters with art.

Journey through Rome with this gorgeous guidebook bursting with art, architecture, maps, and insider tips. Longtime residents Frederick and Vanessa Vreeland take you through the city in time and space, from the Colosseum of 80 A.D. to the hippest shops and nightclubs of today.

"Easily the handsomest and most useful guide to the city that likes to call itself eternal," says Gore Vidal.